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I decid­ed I want­ed to do some account­abil­i­ty stud­ies about algo­rithms in our lives. And it’s hard to study the news­feed in a quan­ti­ta­tive way, and I also want­ed some­thing with high­er stakes. So I start­ed with an algo­rithm that is used in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem to pre­dict whether a per­son is like­ly to com­mit a future crime.

The big con­cerns that I have about arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence are real­ly not about the Singularity, which frankly com­put­er sci­en­tists say is…if it’s pos­si­ble at all it’s hun­dreds of years away. I’m actu­al­ly much more inter­est­ed in the effects that we are see­ing of AInow.